Title

Author

Date of Award

Degree Type

Degree Name

M.A.

Department

English Language, Literature, and Creative Writing

First Advisor

Markotic, Nicole (English Language, Literature, and Creative Writing)

Keywords

Literature.

Rights

CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Abstract

last night's mouth is a narrative collection of prose poems chronicling the journey from break-up to new love. The manuscript employs overarching metaphors of math and music to communicate the attempts of the protagonist, Cassie, to rationalize emotional situations, while list poems emulate those struggles formulaically. Frequent references to popular culture contemporize her relationships. Rhythmic lines and scrambled syntax express the sense of poetry in prosaic paragraphs.